WYOMISSING, Pa. – An investigation has been opened following a police chase in Reading involving a stolen car and potentially armed suspects, police say.<\/p>\n
According to officials, on Saturday at 1:22 a.m., state police attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle driving recklessly near the 1100 block of Parkside Dr. in Wyomissing.<\/p>\n
Troopers identified the vehicle as a 2004 blue Toyota RAV4 with Pennsylvania plates. The car was confirmed to be stolen from the area of Laureldale Borough, Berks County, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Police say they attempted to stop the stolen vehicle with lights and sirens, but the driver failed to yield, prompting a pursuit.<\/p>\n
In the chase, the stolen vehicle traveled at a high rate of speed east through West Reading Borough, then over the Buttonwood Bridge into Reading City, officials confirm.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, the pursuit ended when the stolen vehicle traveled into a wooded area near Green and Tulehocken Street in Reading City.<\/p>\n
The area was searched, and the occupants of the stolen vehicle were unable to be found, police say. They are suspected to be armed.<\/p>\n
This investigation is currently ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. – An investigation has been opened following a police chase in Reading involving a stolen car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[480,2246,128,130,129,32722],"class_list":["post-299828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-police-chase","tag-police-pursuit","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-stolen-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}